LEADER 04202nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910787539903321 005 20220114030440.0 010 $a0-8122-0157-4 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812201574 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418165 035 $a(OCoLC)608025189 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748337 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000949530 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11524483 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000949530 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11014323 035 $a(PQKB)11108507 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26098 035 $a(DE-B1597)449009 035 $a(OCoLC)979576052 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812201574 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442027 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748337 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682360 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442027 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418165 100 $a20070604d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGrammar and Christianity in the late Roman world$b[electronic resource] /$fCatherine M. Chin 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (281 p.) 225 0 $aDivinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-51078-4 311 0 $a0-8122-4035-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [245]-260) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$t1. Introduction. Toward Tyranny --$t2. Imagining Classics --$t3. From Grammar to Piety --$t4. Displacement and Excess Christianizing Grammar --$t5. Fear, Boredom, and Amusement Emotion and Grammar --$t6. Grammar and Utopia --$tEpilogue. Christianization and Narration --$tNotes --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aBetween the years 350 and 500 a large body of Latin artes grammaticae emerged, educational texts outlining the study of Latin grammar and attempting a systematic discussion of correct Latin usage. These texts-the most complete of which are attributed to Donatus, Charisius, Servius, Diomedes, Pompeius, and Priscian-have long been studied as documents in the history of linguistic theory and literary scholarship. In Grammar and Christianity in the Late Roman World, Catherine Chin instead finds within them an opportunity to probe the connections between religious ideology and literary culture in the later Roman Empire. To Chin, the production and use of these texts played a decisive role both in the construction of a pre-Christian classical culture and in the construction of Christianity as a religious entity bound to a religious text. In exploring themes of utopian writing, pedagogical violence, and the narration of the self, the book describes the multiple ways literary education contributed to the idea that the Roman Empire and its inhabitants were capable of converting from one culture to another, from classical to Christian. The study thus reexamines the tensions between these two idealized cultures in antiquity by suggesting that, on a literary level, they were produced simultaneously through reading and writing techniques that were common across the empire. In bringing together and reevaluating fundamental topics from the fields of religious studies, classics, education, and literary criticism, Grammar and Christianity in the Late Roman World offers readers from these disciplines the opportunity to reconsider the basic conditions under which religions and cultures interact. 606 $aChristianity and culture$xHistory 606 $aGrammar, Comparative and general$xHistory 607 $aRome$xHistory$yEmpire, 284-476 610 $aAncient Studies. 610 $aHistory. 610 $aReligion. 610 $aReligious Studies. 615 0$aChristianity and culture$xHistory. 615 0$aGrammar, Comparative and general$xHistory. 676 $a415.0937 700 $aChin$b Catherine M.$f1972-$0698252 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787539903321 996 $aGrammar and Christianity in the late Roman world$91374680 997 $aUNINA